Successful Japanese-- start of global businesses.

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List of Japanese entrepreneurs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I posted this on the other thread re University-entrepreneurship.

Reading through some of these successful entrepreneurs of Japan I thought perhaps it could be interesting to learn more about these individuals and the benefit they provided for Japan itself and for themselves.

ALso successful sportsmen and women and other categories where a Japanese person has succeeded in their chosen field.
Lets learn more about the best things in japan and its influence on the global world.

Yamaha is a household name in Motorcycles and Musical instruments I believe.

Here are a couple of websites.


Yamaha United States

Global Links - Company information | YAMAHA MOTOR

Torakusu Yamaha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yamaha Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


I have played Yamaha recorders for many years and they produce great digital pianos among many other products.

There seems to be very little information about Yamaha himself-- but I wonder if anyone out there knows more.

I admire those who Make it in life and what they started becomes an international business.


can we learn a little more about Yamaha and some other successful Japanese men and women?



Here we have an item about SUZUKI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Suzuki_(violinist)

Many children have learned to play the violin using the Suzuki method.


Suzuki method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

here is a section about the suzuki method and suzuki himself.

Historical notesIn the late nineteenth century, Japan's borders were opened to trade with the outside world, and in particular to the importation of Western Culture. As a result of this, Suzuki's father, who owned a company which had manufactured the Shamisen, began to manufacture violins instead.

In his youth, Shin'ichi Suzuki chanced to hear a phonograph recording of Franz Schubert's Ave Maria, as played on violin by Mischa Elman. Gripped by the beauty of the music, he immediately picked up a violin from his father's factory and began to teach himself to play the instrument "by ear." His father felt that instrumental performance was beneath his son's social status, and refused to allow him to study the instrument. At age 17, he began to teach himself by ear, since no formal training was allowed to him. Eventually he convinced his father to allow him to study with a violin teacher in Tokyo.

At age 22, Suzuki travelled to Germany to find a violin teacher to continue his studies. While there, he studied privately with Karl Klingler, but did not receive any formal degree past his high school diploma. He met and became friends with Albert Einstein, who encouraged him in learning classical music. He also met, courted, and married his wife, Waltraud.

In 1945, Suzuki began his Talent Education movement in Matsumoto, Japan shortly after the end of World War II. Raising children with "noble hearts" (inspired by great music and diligent study) was one of his primary goals; he believed that people raised and "nurtured by love" in his method would grow up to achieve better things than war. One of his students during this post-1945 period was violinist Hidetaro Suzuki, no relation, who later became a veteran of international violin competitions (Tchaikovsky, Queen Elisabeth, Montreal International) and then the longtime concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Eventually, the center of the Suzuki movement in education was established as the Talent Education Research Institute (TERI) in Matsumoto. TERI hosts thousands of people each year—students, parents, teachers, (and teacher trainees). Other organizations have sprung up all over the world to help oversee the movement and train teachers. These include the Asia Suzuki Association, the Suzuki Association of the Americas, the European Suzuki Association (which is currently assisting in the beginnings of the Suzuki movement in Africa) and the Pan-Pacific Suzuki Association.

John D. Kendall of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville brought the Suzuki method, along with adaptations to better fit the requirements of the American classroom, to the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Vilem Sokol of the Seattle Youth Symphony hosted Suzuki in Seattle. The majority of American Suzuki pedagogues and teaching methods are grounded in the Suzuki-Kendall system. Other pioneers of the Suzuki Method in the US include Roland and Almita Vamos, Elizabeth and Harlow Mills, Betty Haag, Louise Behrend

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this one is interesting re the Pearl Industry.

Mikimoto Kōkichi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




also this one: Minoru Mori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Noteworthy buildings

Shanghai World Financial Center
Roppongi Hills
Ark Hills
Atago Green Hills
Holland Hills
Omotesando Hills
Roppongi First Building
Residential
Ark Towers
Wangdu Towers
Ark Forest Terrace
Roppongi First Plaza
Nishi-Azabu Forest Plaza
Moto-Azabu Hills
[edit] See alsoAkira Mori
Mori Art Museum

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"Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. " attributed to Soichiro Honda.


Soichiro Honda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is interesting about Soichiro Honda--

Honda is famous throughout the world I believe.

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Eiji Toyoda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


this is quite informative about the way toyota was developed.